Lieutenant-Colonel Peter Taylor

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Chindit who played a key role in Operation Thursday, a daring attack on an airfield deep behind Japanese lines in Burma in 1944

Peter Taylor was one of the dwindling band of surviving Chindits, the force formed and led by Major-General Orde Wingate that achieved deep penetration into Japanese-occupied Burma twice during the Second World War. Taylor distinguished himself during the second Chindit expedition, Operation Thursday in 1944.

The first Chindit expedition, Operation Longcloth, conducted in brigade strength in 1943 was led by Wingate in person. On the strength of a reputation built on his part in the campaign to restore Haile Selassie to the throne of Ethiopia in 1941, he had persuaded Lord Wavell, the C-in-C India, that operations against Japanese lines